The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

  • -- Elizabeth Hardwick 伊丽莎白·哈德威克

最大的礼物是对阅读的热情。它很便宜,它能安慰人,它能分散注意力,它能让人兴奋,它能让你了解世界,获得广泛的体验。这是一种道德启示。

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The mission of the playwright is to look in his heart and write, to write whatever concerns him at the moment; to write with passion and conviction. Of course the measure of the man will be the measure of the play.

剧作家的使命是看他的内心,写,写任何与他此刻有关的东西;带着激情和信念写作。当然,对一个人的评价也将是对戏剧的评价。

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

一本真正伟大的书应该在青年时读,在成熟时读,在老年时读,就像一座精美的建筑应该在晨光、正午和月光下看一样。

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

当地电台和电视台的电视新闻都令人震惊。让印刷新闻看起来像是有史以来最伟大的作品。

The response to 'The Greatest Generation' and the books that followed has been one of the most satisfying experiences of my life.

对“最伟大的一代”和随后出版的书的回应是我一生中最令人满意的经历之一。

You are not permitted to suffer what others suffer, you are not permitted to fail or die young.

你不允许遭受别人所遭受的痛苦,你不允许失败或英年早逝。

Fashion is my passion, and I respect the creativity that you find in its different levels.

时尚是我的激情所在,我尊重你在不同层次上发现的创造力。

Some like to believe it's the book that chooses the person.

有些人喜欢相信是书选择了这个人。

How can you be nervous? Don't you see? We're in a library.

你怎么会紧张呢?你没有看见吗?我们在图书馆。